why.
My art practice and identity are intertwined through a series of breaks and separations, embodied through the lens of war and displacement, adoption and motherhood. Subsequently, my studio process and resulting artworks explore the fragmentation of identity through recurring themes of on family brokenness and reunion within the historical framing of a post-holocaust community. My praxis and my ongoing art research are mechanisms to connect, transform and adapt - an intersection of the philosophies of Kintsugi and the Bricoleur.
Within my art process, incorporating scratches and cuts, drawing fragments and embedded inscriptions become part of an additive and investigative method that gives purpose to stories of regeneration. I was born to a survivor and became a survivor myself. From brokenness, the scars of repair in my art process hold both power and memory. I explore themes connected to maternal empowerment, inspired by anatomy, nature, separation, decay, and rebirth. While contemporary life is characterized by a sequence of fleeting moments and disconnected associations, these constructions become a unified space for contemplation of the female identity, trans-generational familial memory, and the metamorphic aspects of motherhood.
Through the exploration and research of mosaic I have developed an interdisciplinary methodology that combines passions for drawing, carving, sculptural fragmentation. The resulting works combine palpable graphic stories and embedded poetry in textural sculptural forms and plaques, implementing fragmentation materially and metaphorically. Gathering images, words, materials, and textures - satisfies my need to make things whole my desire to bring a sense of order out of chaos through repair.